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Ann Philbin gives $500,000 to NPR, KCRW, LAist | City News Service
The J. Paul Getty Trust announced Wednesday that it has awarded its annual Getty Prize to Ann Philbin, director emeritus of the Hammer Museum, for her decades of influential work in the arts and culture world. As part of the honor, Philbin selected NPR as the recipient of the award’s $500,000 pay-it-forward grant. The funds will be shared among NPR and its Los Angeles member stations, KCRW and LAist, to support arts and culture programming, officials said. (Philbin was quoted. Also: TheWrap.)
Cuts to weather services offices in California | KCRW 89.9-FM
“These are the people who essentially prevent weather disasters from being much worse than they are. There will be people who die in extreme weather events and weather-related disasters who would not have otherwise,” said UCLA’s Daniel Swain.
Replication research: testing science’s reliability | The Conversation
(Commentary by Amanda Kay Montoya) It took me many years to realize that science is not just some series of activities where you know what will happen at the end. Instead, science is about discovering and generating new knowledge.
